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FIRST YEAR COLLEGE CHEMISTRY
John W. Borker, Professor of Chemistry, Wittenberg Colleges and Pod K. Glosoe, Professor of Chemishy, Carthage College. 501 pp. McGraw-Hill Baok Co., Inc., New York, 1951. x Illustrated. 16 X 23.5 em. $5. Tms is a new book of many virtues and some weaknesses. I t is written primarily for the student who will take additional chemistry, rather thm for the terminal student. "This text is designed to provide the foundation of enoyclopedic fact and underlying principles upon which a student can predicate further
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work in chemistry or allied fields." (Quoted from jacket.) It is designed for a full year course, and closes with 20 pages of organic chemistry and a short final chapter entitled: So You Want to be a Chemist? In general the approach, selection and arrangement of material are quite traditional. I t has been boiled down to 481 pages of text, not so much through elimination of topics ss through general contraction of the usual topics. Repetition is sldllfully used to clinch concepts introduced eadier, and only ocosxsionally (cf. Haber process, page.? 236-7, 287-8) does the repetition become too obvious. The apparent aim of keeping discussions on a simple plane in
